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[UPDATED with second legal opinion] Two Broward County mayors can fly to Saudi Arabia and have their expenses paid by the Royal Embassy without violating Broward's strict no-gifts ban, attorneys ruled. And if they want to bring a spouse along, all expenses paid, that is OK, too, according to one city legal opinion. My colleague wrote last week about the trip. Click here to read her story about Miramar Mayor Lori Moseley and Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper. Broward's relatively new Code of Ethics is so strict about accepting freebies that public officials here regularly complain about it, saying they can't even accept a free bottle of water. But city attorneys in...

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